This time around, it will be much easier to watch the games you want, live or on-demand.
THE SUMMER OLYMPICS are back! After a thoroughly weird 2020 Tokyo Games—which actually took place in 2021 and largely happened without crowds of spectators because of Covid-related restrictions—we’re returning to the relative normalcy of the hyped up, enormously crowded, in-person spectacles of Olympics past.
The 2024 Summer Olympics are taking place in Paris, France. The Olympics start this Friday, July 26. (Technically there are some events before the Opening Ceremony, but we’ll get to those in a minute.) The Games will run every day for just over two weeks, with the Closing Ceremony held on August 11.
Watching the last Summer Olympics involved a bit of juggling between apps, time zones, and prime-time live coverage. This year, the Games will be much easier to watch. NBC, the broadcast partner in the US, has launched a fresh Olympics portal on its Peacock streaming service, giving users a way to bookmark the events they want to watch and then get reminders to tune in live.
If you live in the US and you have cable or an over-the-air antenna, you can watch a mix of packaged highlights and live events on NBC (yet again the Games’ sole US distributor). Cable coverage will be across several NBC channels, including NBC, NBC Sports, CNBC, and the USA Network. Coverage in Spanish is on Telemundo and Universo.
